28 February 2011 9:18 AM

Oscars voters gobble up the ham

You can't argue with the several wins for The King's Speech - all utterly merited.

However, I think issue can be taken with the winner of Best Actress category, Natalie Portman for Black Swan. Annette Bening’s Nic in The Kids Are All Right was a doozy of a character and Bening played her perfectly.

However, Portman’s hysterical dancing loon, Nina, was so over-the-top that some Academy members, who should know better, mistook bonkers overacting for a knockout turn. They were wrong. Bening should have won.

As with Natalie Portman, many obviously misread Christian Bale’s severe over-egging of the pudding in The Fighter as ‘real’ acting. His win as Best Supporting Actor offers conclusive proof that he shouts loudest often prevails. Or perhaps they just didn't want the tetchy actor to start a fight in the auditorium if he lost.

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